Family Environment and Intergenerational Mobility

家庭环境与代际流动

• 批准号: 0113213
• 负责人: Patrick Mason
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-15 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0113213&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Family; Environment; Intergenerational; Mobility

Families are crucial institutions for intergenerational mobility. Family values influence the acquisition of marketable skills by offspring. Family social and economic status affects both skill acquisition and the next generation's access to individuals embedded in positions of authority and power. It has been argued that differences in family and neighborhood characteristics are ultimately for increasing racial wage inequality that began in the early 1980s and that remains with us today. Researchers have also argued that ethnic and racial capital, that is, a demographic group's average level of social or economic wellbeing, interacts with parental and neighborhood socioeconomic status to determine intergenerational mobility. This research project unites the literature on family environment (that is, the combination of family values/behaviors and family socioeconomic status) and intergenerational inequality with an exploration of the nature and extent of racial and gender inequality. Accordingly, this paper investigates four questions. First, do childhood family values and family status matter for young adult social and economic outcomes? Second, does accounting for individual differences in childhood family environment eliminate racial and gender differences in the wellbeing of young adult workers? Third, does the relative importance of childhood family environment on young adult wellbeing vary across racial and gender groups? Four, are there racial and gender differences in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status? To answer these questions, the research project examines the impact of family values and family economic and social status on educational attainment, annual earnings, wealth (home value), and annual hours of employment for four race-sex groups: African American females and males, white females and males.

家庭是代际流动的关键机构。家庭价值观影响子女获得市场需要的技能。家庭的社会和经济地位既影响技能的获得，也影响下一代接触权威和权力职位的机会。有人认为，家庭和邻里特征的差异最终导致了20世纪80年代初开始的种族工资不平等，这种不平等一直持续到今天。研究人员还认为，民族和种族资本，即人口群体的社会或经济福祉的平均水平，与父母和邻里的社会经济地位相互作用，以确定代际流动。该研究项目将有关家庭环境（即家庭价值观/行为和家庭社会经济地位的结合）和代际不平等的文献与对种族和性别不平等的性质和程度的探索结合起来。据此，本文探讨了四个问题。第一，童年的家庭价值观和家庭地位对年轻人的社会和经济成果有影响吗？第二，考虑到童年家庭环境的个体差异是否消除了年轻成年工人幸福感的种族和性别差异？第三，童年家庭环境对年轻人健康的相对重要性是否因种族和性别而异？第四，社会经济地位的代际传递是否存在种族和性别差异？为了回答这些问题，该研究项目探讨了家庭价值观和家庭经济和社会地位对四个种族性别群体的教育程度、年收入、财富（家庭价值）和年就业时间的影响：非洲裔美国人女性和男性、白色女性和男性。